Knowledge Quotes - Page 12

Anyone with half a mind could see that," said Tiffany.
Miss Tick sighed. "Yes. But sometimes it's so hard to find half a mind when you need one.

If I reveal myself without worrying about how others will respond, then some will care, though others may not. But who can love me, if no one knows me? I must risk it, or live alone.

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in infomation?

We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge - and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves - how could it happen that we should ever find ourselves? It has rightly been said: "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also"; our treasure is where the beehives of our knowledge are.

Stress the right of the individual to select only what he desires to know, to use any knowledge as he wishes, that he himself owns what he has learned.

I found a beautiful lane called " I know nothing" . it leads it way ; all you got to do is walk in it.

Before this generation lose the wisdom, one advice - read books.

Knowledge unlocks the door to the mysteries of our mistakes; wisdom guides us away from repeating them". HS/el

If she could no longer be called beautiful, she possessed something better-a knowledge of beauty; it’s inflated value, it’s inevitable loss.

Baxter knows a lot more than I do, I told her.
Yes, said Baxter, but I will never tell people all of it.

The world is a different place in this new century, [...]. And we are a different people. My visions still come but no one listens any longer to what they tell us, what they warn us. I knew even as a young woman that destruction bred on the horizon. [...] War touches everyone, and windigos spring from the earth.

Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his fingers, and yet, if his hands be but wet as though with dew, behold a generation of fools call out, 'See, he is a wise man!' Is it not so?

Of course, being brave does not mean running towards danger.

Everything worth knowing about the 1980s I learned from obsessively reading Bloom County collections when I was nine and Derek Jarman's diaries when I was twenty.

Wenn [der Lehrer] wirklich weise ist, fordert er euch nicht auf, ins Haus seiner Weisheit einzutreten, sondern führt euch an die Schwelle eures eigenen Geistes.

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza
Poverty: The result of marriage.

Prejudice begets prejudice, you see. Knowledge does not always evolve into wisdom.

There is no shame in ignorance, only in denying it. By knowing what we do not know, we can take steps to remedy our lack of knowledge

Even if false gold makes a man happy:
At the mint it will be identified.

Knowledge can create unlimited credit whereas credit can only buy limited knowledge.